This treasury of humorous poems brings together a sparkling constellation of witty poets-from Lord Rochester to Lewis Carroll, from Edward Lear to Ogden Nash, from Dorothy Parker to W.
Auden-and embraces a wide range of forms, including limericks, clerihews, ballads, sonnets, and nonsense verse.
Comic Poems is studded with unforgettable classics, along with lesser-known comic gems from across the ages, from ancient Rome to modern America.
Here is the immortal How Pleasant to Know Mr.
Lear beside No l Coward's Mad Dogs and Englishmen; the incomparable Jabberwocky next to the famous There was a young lady of Riga.
From Cole Porter and John Updike on love and marriage to Stevie Smith and Dorothy Parker on mortality to the ever-talented Anonymous on almost anything, the lighthearted poetry collected here ranges from the most delightful nonsense to the most sophisticated wit.
About the Author: Peter Washington is the author of Madame Blavatsky's Baboon.
He is the editor of several Everyman's Library Pocket Poet anthologies including Love Poems and Friendship Poems.
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Everyman's Library Comic poems, hardcover/peter washington
